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| .\" POSIX 2001 draft6 |
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| .TH ICONV 1 "January 13, 2002" "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
| .SH NAME |
| iconv \- character set conversion |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .nf |
| iconv [\fB-c\fP] [\fB-s\fP] [\fB-f\fP \fIencoding\fP] [\fB-t\fP \fIencoding\fP] [\fIinputfile\fP ...] |
| iconv \fB-l\fP |
| .fi |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| The \fBiconv\fP program converts text from one encoding to another encoding. |
| More precisely, it converts \fBfrom\fP the encoding given for the \fB-f\fP |
| option \fBto\fP the encoding given for the \fB-t\fP option. Either of these |
| encodings defaults to the encoding of the current locale. All the |
| \fIinputfile\fPs are read and converted in turn; if no \fIinputfile\fP is |
| given, the standard input is used. The converted text is printed to standard |
| output. |
| .PP |
| When option \fB-c\fP is given, characters that cannot be converted are |
| silently discarded, instead of leading to a conversion error. |
| .PP |
| When option \fB-s\fP is given, error messages about invalid or unconvertible |
| characters are omitted, but the actual converted text is unaffected. |
| .PP |
| The encodings permitted are system dependent. For the libiconv implementation, |
| they are listed in the iconv_open(3) manual page. |
| .PP |
| The \fBiconv -l\fP command lists the names of the supported encodings, in a |
| system dependent format. For the libiconv implementation, the names are |
| printed in upper case, separated by whitespace, and alias names of an encoding |
| are listed on the same line as the encoding itself. |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR iconv_open "(3), " locale (7) |